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| Type: | Journal article |
| Title: | Cardiovascular physiology of dinosaurs |
| Author: | Seymour, R. |
| Citation: | Physiology, 2016; 31(6):430-441 |
| Publisher: | American Physiological Society |
| Issue Date: | 2016 |
| ISSN: | 1548-9213 1548-9221 |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Roger S. Seymour |
| Abstract: | Cardiovascular function in dinosaurs can be inferred from fossil evidence with knowledge of how metabolic rate, blood flow rate, blood pressure, and heart size are related to body size in living animals. Skeletal stature and nutrient foramen size in fossil femora provide direct evidence of a high arterial blood pressure, a large four-chambered heart, a high aerobic metabolic rate, and intense locomotion. But was the heart of a huge, long-necked sauropod dinosaur able to pump blood up 9 m to its head? |
| Keywords: | Cardiovascular System Animals Humans Dinosaurs Body Size Blood Pressure Locomotion Fossils |
| Description: | Published October 5, 2016 |
| Rights: | ©2016 Int. Union Physiol. Sci./Am. Physiol. Soc. |
| DOI: | 10.1152/physiol.00016.2016 |
| Grant ID: | http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP120102081 |
| Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/physiol.00016.2016 |
| Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 3 Earth and Environmental Sciences publications |
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